Dear All,
Yeserday morning after a long and bumpy flight (over Europe) I arrived  safely at Mammapuralam.
In the afternoon I went to see the Shore temple Which acording to its name is situated near the coastline. Build in the 7th century according to Dravidian architecture by the Palladas and dedicated to Shiva and Vishnu.
In the evening I had my first vegetarian Indian meal (with fish and a piece of chicken). Nice and spicy!

This morning I hired a bike to see the neighbourhoods of Mammapulam. A nameless temple was visited in a village nearby and already lots of pictures are taken of the beautiful and very friendly Indian people.
Now I am of to see the 5 Rathas, which are 5 temples cut of stone and supposing to be a vehicle of honour. Also Dravidian architecture and inspired by Mahabharata.

Till soon,
Arjan

India

Dear all,
As of Friday 4/11 I will be on vacation. I will keep you posted by short mails from my bb to this blog. CU Arjan
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Before and After – Utrecht Leidsche Rijn

October 15, 2011

Leidsche Rijn is a new district of the city Utrecht in the centre of the Netherlands. It used to be an area of meadows and it is transformed to a new area of houses, appartments and other buildings of modern architecture.

The Urban Photo Collective visited this new landscape and here you will find an impression of the achitecture and art.

 

Enjoy,

Arjan

http://urban.iamnotsimple.nl/#home

Another weekend with the photoclub at Anjum

From 9 till 11 September I spent the weekend at Anjum. A small village at the Lauwersmeer in the northern part of Holland. Just a weekend of making a lot of pictures of the beautiful Dutch country side and having a good time with my friends of the club.

What does such a weekend learn to you:

• Even when the wheather is not that good for making pictures, the sun always rises
  
• Old sailing vessels look very good in black and white printing
  
• And also Seagulls have to mind their step J
  

As I am still working on preparing the pictures for publishing more will be uploaded in the near future.

http://fca.iamnotsimple.nl/#15.0

 

Have fun

Arjan

Exhibition of Fotoclub Almere 2011

Thursday September 1st, the yearly exhibition of the Fotoclub opened at Cityhall of Almere. Almost 50 photos of the members of the club are shown the coming month.

 

I participate in this exhibition with 2 of my pictures. One made at a concert of Alain Clark and one made during my holiday last year in New Dehli. Pictures of the exhibition are shown hereunder:

 

 

Kingfisher around Almere

Yesterday (August 20, 2011) I finally spotted him. A Kingfisher. A small, but very colourful bird and I spotted him at a bird watchers cabin only a 10 minute ride by bike from my homeplace.

As this bird has very strong habits to be at the same place at the same time I will try in the near future to get more pictures of him (the males have a black beak).

The pictures can be found at my site: http://nature.iamnotsimple.nl/#14.0

Enjoy,

Arjan

Urban Photo Collective - Breitner

A few months ago I joined the Urban Photo Collective in Amsterdam. This collective is an organisation in various Dutch cities and they come together once a month to practice the Urban Photography. The theme of this month actually was minimalism, but especially for the Amsterdam section it was changed to Breitner.

Breitner was a Dutch painter/photographer who lived in Amsterdam around 1890 and who mainly made his pictures in the Jordaan (a district near the old centre of Amsterdam). His pictures reflect the daily life of those times. Many housewifes, men at work, constuctionworks and the narrow alleys of the city.

Examples of his work can be seen at the following link of the city archives of Amsterdam:

http://beeldbank.amsterdam.nl/index.php?option=com_result&Itemid=9&qasked=1&qtype=nieuw&co=553199

I tried to show to you the present streetlife of the Jordaan, which is of course quite different from a century ago. The selection of my pictures can be watched at:

http://urban.iamnotsimple.nl/#10.0

 

Have fun…

Arjan